...Hishaam D. Aidi The Interference of al-Andalus Spain, Isl a m, and the West Of the African American volunteer fighters who heeded the call of the Hishaam D. Aidi Communist International...

... in the nineteenth century, I argue that both James and Oiticica independently discovered its active remains in what I call “the aesthetic sociality of blackness,” the popular practices they encountered among the predominantly black residents of the barrack-yards of Port of Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro...

...Carla Marcantonio Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a film whose glossy surface belies its investment in history—cinema’s history, Spain’s history, transnational history. It tracks a correspondence among cinema, transsexuality, and medium specificity through the trope of transgenesis: skin...

... of social death. In New Spain (colonial Mexico), as in all slave societies, slavery acquired its specificity through time and space. Slavery in the conquest period (1519 – 21) resembled the peculiarities of that historic moment...

...John Collins Duke University Press 2006 Staircase portion of Dani Karavan’s “Passages” monument to Walter Benjamin (Portbou, Spain). Courtesy of the author From Portbou to Palestine and Back Entering the staircase, one is gripped...

... in the Departments of His- panic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, SUNY. His work centers on transna- tional and cross-­cultural representation and politics in both the Americas and Spain. He is currently writing a book on the role film has played...

... might it have come? In Spain and Portugal, during the centuries of the reconquista (recon- quest) that preceded New World colonization, the status of the Jewish and Muslim pastoral enemy was particularly acute, taking on as it did a condition of permanent localized war. In 1391, a wave...

... and not coincidentally black families — ­had not yet been forcibly relocated from the dilapidated buildings that were their homes. Those homes had not yet been renovated as quaint hotels to house tourists from Spain or Canada or beyond. That had not happened yet. What had happened was this object. She struck me...

... Claudio . 2014 . The Invasion of America . invasionofamerica.ehistory.org . Hartman, Saidiya. 2008. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 26: 1–14. Padrón, Ricardo. 2004. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago...

... the Atlantic Slave Route . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Hartman Saidiya . 2008 . “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 26 : 1 – 14 . Padrón Ricardo . 2004 . The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... Intellectual”: On Identity, Alterity, and the Politics of Memory  Gil Z. Hochberg 47 The Interference of al-Andalus: Spain, Islam, and the West  Hishaam D. Aidi 67 The Filipina’s Breast: Savagery, Docility, and the Erotics of the American Empire  Nerissa S. Balce 89 The Recourses...

... security state both by expanding its mili- tary adventures and by developing an internal security network of clients and informants. England’s external militance under the Cecilian regime was directed primarily against Spain...

... presence in Spanish culture and historiography, Hishaam Aidi extends the work of Middle Eastern studies to the Iberian peninsula. Given special urgency by the 3/11 attacks in Madrid, current debates over the relationship between Spain and its Arab minorities are located...

... its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade...

... and fascism in 1938. He didn’t fight in Spain but drove an ambulance. When he came back from the war, he committed what was, for his upper-crust WASP family, an unforgivable sin: he married a Jew. Marrying a Jew and now becoming...

...- entalism far back and to show the links between the reconquista in Spain— the expulsion of Jews and Muslims in 1492—and the conquista of Amer- ica in the same year, in terms of the traveling discourses and practices. There are historical...

.../ . Locke John . Second Treatise of Government . 1690 . Edited by Macpherson C. B. . Indianapolis : Hackett , 1980 . Martínez María Elena . “ The Black Blood of New Spain: Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico .” William and Mary Quarterly...

... Treatise , 88 . 93. Newson “Africans,” 17–18 ; Pérez-Mallaína, Spain's Men , 98–99 . 94. Perez, Livros de há y há de haver . 95. Ireton, “Black Africans’ Freedom,” 1295–96 . 96. Ireton, “Black Africans’ Freedom,” 1298 . 97. Ireton, “Black Africans’ Freedom,” 1305...

..., a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal . . . a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10 pm...

... society. The same happened in 114 Lindsay Paterson ST 65.05 Paterson 11/8/00 2:26 PM Page 115 revolutions against right-wing dictatorships in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and large parts of Latin America slightly earlier. And—closer to home...